The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-11-02
A Revised Edition of the Tariff.

Of the tariff. OF course they do. They
promised their foreign allies they would
secure this, and they are urged to keep
their pledges. When they came inta
power the fist thing they did Was to re-
wise the tariff. which consisted of placing
host of articles on the free list They
reported to the House of Representatives
the most Objectionable bill ever offered
TO that body. Thanks TO the Republi-
cans, the bill was killed Then Mr. Nor
rison, rs the mouthpiece Of the admins
tration, got up bill that cut and slashed
everything. Aided by a few Democrats
the Republicans struck out the enacting
clause anil it was lost At the next ses-
sion Mr.. Morrison presented another bill.
which had previously received the assent
of the administration and party leaders,
and the party whip was used to pass it.
This time iron and coal were placed on
the free list as punishment of Pennsyl-
vania for its oublicanism, but the Re-
publican party fought it to the end, and
with the aid of few tariff Democrats de-
feated it. SO much for their revised tariff.
They have shown what they would do If
they had the power. Whether they shall
be entrusted with that power, and thus
commissioned to bring rot and ruin. de-
pends on the voters II Is for them TO
decide.
Senator Edmunis in an address at the
Burlington State Fair made the following
presentation, showing that all our indus
tries are mutually interested in tariff to
regulate importations in such way as
not 10 interfere with home industries.
He said
Among the problems Of the farmer,
the manufacturer, the artisan, and the
wage worker land perhaps the most i'm
portant of any is that of diversifying
productions, manufactures. and industri-
al emplovments, 50 that the natural re-
source of the country shall be drawn
upon, and the accumulate stock of prop
erty of every kind utilized and all its
working force employed at renumerative
prices. 1t is perfectly clear, that the far
mer is nee sssary 10 the manufacturer and
the miner to the laborer, and in equal
degree they each and all are necessary TO
him, and that the coordination and CO.
operation of all for the welfare of all by
the utmost diversity of production and
employment, and by observing the Just
relations of prices among all are indis-
Pensible to the progress and and prosper
ity of the community. To attain these
benefieent ends as nearly as possible, hu-
man experience has shown, think that
in a country of varied and abundant nat
ural resources-fertile lands, wide varia-
tions Of latitude and climate, mines of all
metals. coal, forests, water power, coun-
try free from legal monopolies, and bound
" its National and State Constitutions
| e equal to taxation and the security of
G 3nal personal rights-home markets and
b pane consumption are the sure and only
re liance. These evident, and indeed al
m oss self evident, considerations point,
as you can readily see, to the one conclu-
sis,n-one that is not, and have and be-
lieye will not be thought, political in any
sense-that the policy of American legis-
lation and American Iawmakers-who
are really the people-oughi To be direc-
ted to the utmost development of every
variety of American production, and as
10 the improvement of the condition of
the American laborer and the American
employer of labor of every kind, by Civ
ing that labor full employment and ade-
quate reward, and to the employed ready
and steady market The constantly EN-
ployed well paid laborer viii become
himself man OF accumulating capital
1lle force of labor transpcsed into things
He will become land holder his wife
and ehildren-of the first whom he
Ssught to have one, and of the second
many-wiH abide in his own house"